Top 1200 Hidden Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

We don't apologize for who we are. We do what we do as Christians. Our faith isn't hidden. There should never be a separation between God and good works.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.

The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

The first time you catch a fish, it's amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination you can get there.

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.